Shaun Abrahamson

Managing Partner

2013 - Current

Third Sphere works for founders transforming global systems. We’ve made over 100 investments in notable firms like Cove Tool, OneWheel and Bowery Farming. We’re usually a pre-customer investor and offer traditional venture as well as credit finance, along with coaching and connections to over 12,000 customers, investors focused on re-imagining our planet. Our team is ranked in the 99th percentile of climatetech investors on NFX Signal, and Techcrunch named us one of the top 10 VCs founders love the most.

Board Member

2022

Board Member

2020

Board Member

2016

Investment Committee

2017 - 2021

The Third Sphere team ran the leading accelerator for startups upgrading cities for climate change founded by BMW MINI. This included selection and coaching of all teams from cohort 3 to 10. We reorganized around partner-led weekly advisory sessions versus a mentor-led model. Produced all workshops and educational materials including playbooks for customer discovery, traction and growth. We increased graduation rates to over 85% - successful fundraising completed after the program. Prior cohorts were at 35%. Many programs celebrate 50% graduation rates.

Board Observer

2019 - 2021

Advisor - Future of Urban Development & Services Initiative

2016 - 2018

Founder and Seed Investor

2007 - 2014

Pre-seed tech investment including: ZocDoc, Public, CrowdTwist (acquired by Oracle), Bluebottle (acquired by Nestle), Refinery29 (acquired by Vice), TrialPay (acquired by Visa), Modria (acquired by Tyler), Jovoto (acquired by Talent House), Sense Networks (acquired by Yellow Pages), Retrofit (acquired by Livongo), Mealku (acquired by Morsum), Care at Hand (acquired Mindoula), Everest, Holstee, Stylyt, Minbox, Soma, Spuni as well as multiple seed funds.

Founder and CEO

2007 - 2013

Mutopo worked with organizations to organize internal and external communities (then more commonly referred to as crowds) to find and evaluate ideas and talent. Some of the best known work focused on problems like energy efficient real estate (www.lifeedited.org), paper waste reduction (www.thebetacup.com with Starbucks) and affordable housing (www.300house.com).

Co Author

2012 - 2013

How do you work with 1000's of people to get the best ideas? Part II never became a book, but rather events, blog posts and playbooks as part of Urban Us.